Fountain-brush.



G. E. STUBBS. FOUNTAIN BRUSH. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. zo, 1616.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

,a proved brush and containeru cLAnnNon n. s'runns, or nanrrnonn, MARYLAND.

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Speciilcation of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 16, 15nd.

Application filed January 20, 1910. Serial No. 538,9?5;

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that l, CLAiuiNon E. Sfrus,

lvla citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in. the` State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to improvements in fountain brushes and has for its object to provide an improved construction, combination and arrangement of brush and container whereby the material to be delivered to the brush may be readily forced from the container whenever desired.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which,"

Figure-1 is a. side elevation of the im- Fig. 2, is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3, a horizontal cross-section thereof,-tl1e section being taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing, thenumeral, 1, designates the container or what may be termed the hollow handle portion of the brush which, in the present instance, is circular in cross-section and has a chamber, 2, therein. One end, 3., of the container in the present instance is permanently closed.

The upper end of the handle or container portion, l, is provided with a cover, 4, having an annular depending flange, 5, which,

after the material has been placed in the container has its lower edge, 7, turned 1nwardly to engage ashoulder, 6, on the handle or container but the engagement of said cover with the handle or container is such as to permit rotation between thenn A tube, 8, extends longitudinally 1n the handleV or container and has its upper end extending throughfand openin above the cover thereof and its lower en 9, is open to the chamber, 2, so as to form a central passageway through the chamber and to the outer side of the cover. Obviously thevlower endlofthe tubemay have any form of opening to permitL communication between its central passage and the chamber, V2, but in the present instance said tube merely hangs pendently below the cover with its lower end, 9, terminating immediately above the closed end, 3, of the-container so that material in the chamber may pass up through the lower open end of the tube.v y

lt is to be understood that the tube, 8, has no longitudinal movement in the chamber, 2, but does have a rotary movement therein for a purpose presently to be described. 4

rlhe upper end, l0, of the tube enters and eiipgairges a. head, 11, of the brush and is rigid therewith so that the head and tube may turn together, and said discharge end of the tube projects into the center of the bunch of bristles, l2.

The brush head, 11, and rotatable cover, 4f, are rigid with respect to each other so they will revolve with the tube and the inturned edge, 7, of the flange, 5, thus holds the brush head and tube against vertical movement with respect to the container. i

That portion ofthe tube that enters the chamber, 2, is provided with exterior screw y threads, 13, and a dish or head, le, is movable longitudinally on the tube as the latter is rotated.

The disk or head is preferably of thick cork or similarl material and in order to reinforce the same on the upper side, l provide a plate, 15, having a central up-turned flange, 16which is screwthreadcd` soas to engage the threads on the tube, 8, and 'thus be ma de to travel longitudinally on the tube as the latter is revolved. It will be under?. stood that when the chamber, 2, contains material that is to be forced through the tube the disk or head, 14, will seat against the surface thereof and by frictional contact with it and also with the walls of 4the container will be preventedrom rotating with the screw.

To operate the device it is only necessary .to rotate lthe tube which may be done by Havingffthus described my invention what 'I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- `ent is,-

1. In'aV fountain brush the combination with a receptacle, of a tube having one end los'v projecting from the receptacle and the other end extending into the receptacle toward the bottom,-said tube having an lower end. near the bottom of t e receptacle 11o opening in its .to receive .materials forceddownwardly in said recepltacle; a disk movable on said tube .c toward t receptacle for the exit-rance of material from -the receptacle. said tube havin exterior screw threads; a disk movable Ongi-tudinally on the' threads of the tube toward the bottom opening of the latterto force the contents downwardly into the receptacle and through. the tube andv bristles at the outer discharge opening of the tube.

3. In a fountain brush the combination with a receptacle having an exterior shoulder' at one' end, of a 'cover at the end of the v gether.

receptacle and having a flange to loosel vcnf gage said shoulder. on the receptacle w erey the cover may be rotatedl; a tube extending into the receptacle `and projecting throuh and rotating withgthe cover,-sai tube aving an inlet from the rece tacle near the bottom thereof and an out et at its projectin end and exterior to the cover and. also, aving vcircumferential .screw threads; a disk having screw-threaded engagementn'with the tube and. located on the latter between the inlet thereto and the said cover, and a head detachably secured on the projecting end of the tubeand havin bristles at the outlet :froml the tube, an said head, tube and cover being rotatable to- In testimony whereof I affix my signature 1n presence of two wltnesses` l CLARENCE E. sTUBBsT Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, Jr., G; FERDINAND VOGT. 

